Failure to Install GD with CPAN: LDS/GD-2.35.tar.gz

I decided to install the GD image library for Perl on my working station, and as usual, using CPAN. However, after running install GD, I was faced with an error.

make: *** [GD.o] Error 1
  LDS/GD-2.35.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Failed during this command:
 LDS/GD-2.35.tar.gz                           : make NO

Unable to find the cause, I turned to apt-get, which installed GD without any problems.

$ sudo apt-cache search libgd perl 
libgd-gd2-perl - Perl module wrapper for libgd - gd2 variant
libgd-graph-perl - Graph Plotting Module for Perl 5
libgd-text-perl - Text utilities for use with GD
ruby1.8 - Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby 1.8
calamaris - log analyzer for Squid or Oops proxy log files
libgd-barcode-perl - Library to create barcode images (GD::Barcode)
libgd-gd1-noxpm-perl - Perl module wrapper for libgd (old version against GD 1.8.x)
libgd-gd1-perl - Perl module wrapper for libgd (old version against GD 1.8.x)
libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl - Perl module wrapper for libgd - gd2 variant without XPM support
libgd-graph3d-perl - Create 3D Graphs with GD and GD::Graph
libgd-perl - Perl module wrapper for libgd
libgd-securityimage-perl - Security image (captcha) generator.
libgdk-pixbuf-perl - Perl module for the gdkpixbuf library
$ sudo apt-get install libgd-perl

Done!

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  2. I was trying to install GD module through CPAN and faced the problem of unmet dependencies –namely libgd. When I turned to apt-get, I got:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libgd-perl: Depends: libgd-gd1-perl (= 1.41-13) but it is not going to be installed

    When I tried to install the above dependency using apt-get, I got:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libgd-gd1-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.8.8

    Now, the version of Perl I am running is 5.10.0.

    Does anyone have any ideas as to how to solve this problem.

    Thanks in advance.

    Comment by Ivan — June 24, 2008 @ 2:03 pm

  3. Ivan: Unfortunately, I cannot help you. Try #linux and #yourdistro on various IRC networks.

    Comment by Tim — June 24, 2008 @ 5:26 pm

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